This is some support material designed to go along with and enhance the article "The Back Page: My Favorite Lesson: Teaching the Pythagorean Theorem for Understanding" by Blake E. Peterson in the September 2009, Volume 103, Issue 2, Page 160 of the Mathematics Teacher journal.
The following pdf file contains the hands-on activity description to go along with the article. This includes the cut-outs and the teacher solution to the problem.
Teaching the Pythagorean Theorem for Understanding
This is some support material designed to go along with and enhance the article "The Back Page: My Favorite Lesson: Teaching the Pythagorean Theorem for Understanding" by Blake E. Peterson in the September 2009, Volume 103, Issue 2, Page 160 of the Mathematics Teacher journal.
The following pdf file contains the hands-on activity description to go along with the article. This includes the cut-outs and the teacher solution to the problem.